On December 7 StrategEast has held an annual Advisory Board meeting via Zoom attended by Debra Cagan, Michael Haltzel, Ambassador Clifford Bond, Horton Beebe-Center, David Tkeshelashvili, Daniel A. Witt.
StrategEast President, Anatoly Motkin walked the Advisory Board members through StrategEast’s activities executed throughout the last year. In particular, M. Motkin highlighted the following major achievements of the last year: “Over the past year, StrategEast has become the dominant independent institution which in cooperation with international financial institutions and development agencies, governments and the private sector is engaged in the digital transformation of Eurasia:
- We managed to gather the widest coalition of partners from USAID to the World Bank, from Google to Oracle, from the government of Kazakhstan to the government of Georgia for the development of the IT industry in Eurasia;
- Our Forum has become the main platform where strategies for the development of digital economy are formulated;
- We are present in almost all countries of Eurasia, implementing projects in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan;
- Due to our activity in Georgia, an export-oriented IT industry was created in one year;
- We have become an advisor to the governments of the region. Governments from Ukraine to Tajikistan are developing digital economy based on our expertise”.
